Interesting little vignette below featuring Dr. Lisa Dethridge (RMIT lecturer and an ex LAMP participant for an SLCN.tv-like LAMP project called InWorld) with the presenter of ABC’s community focused TV show ‘Can We Help?’. The short video has several clips of ABC Island built by a Gary Hazlitt (whoever he is) and in an earlier [...]
Gary Hazlitt and Gazlitt (aka as me!) take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…cross posted from Personalizemedia.
“I am doing curriculum development (and other things) on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, [...]
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Fed up with your avatar having to live inside a wall-garden world? Want to bring it out into the wider web to play? Well it seems a revolution is at hand, early days and a few notable services listed below, but keep your eyes peeled as virtual characters start to [...]
There have been many MMOGs that come and go and initially appear to be contenders out to take a slice of the 65% of the market share that World of Warcraft has in online games arena. Blizzard are making around $500m per year in clear profit from their subscription model and a similar amount in [...]
Very interesting research from Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson who have just researched for ($1.5Mill US) and written a book called “Grand Theft Childhood” which makes the claim that rather than video simulations (games for the oldie readers) being about social rejects the actual opposite is true. Those children who are not exposed to playing [...]
Just for fun, for all you LAMP’ers who are movie makers and game designers, here is a fascinating article on how you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse if ever needed for your project…
Step one, Know Your Zombies.
The idea of the zombie derives from Voodoo lore. Voodoo (or voudou or vodun) is [...]
We don’t talk about our own home grown, cheap-cheerful, DIY projects on water-cooler that much but this could be classed as cool I think. A ‘amateur’ production flow scenario showing how tools at the disposal of many folk now can do some interesting stuff. The remarkable thing was that this was a quick 5 hour [...]
We lost a big name in the gaming industry on the 3rd March 2008, Gary Cygax. If it wasnt for the vision of this man, pretty much every role playing game be it analog or digital, would not exist. He created the enthusiasm and the culture surrounding the whole role playing genre, which ultimately has [...]
I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, destroying robots, then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from many years [...]
In the latest Warhammer Online newsletter, Mythic have released a video showing what Realm vs. Realm combat will (somewhat) look like when the game is released (they took out magic spells). As soon as you watch it, you’ll see that it looks very much like a high-end World of Warcraft. That’s only fair, since Warcraft’s [...]
Been waiting for a definitive documentary on the phenomena behind the vast swathes of humanity moving into Social Virtual Worlds and MMOGs and this looks like it. A trailer has just been posted on YouTube and already got 23 000 hits in a day, a feat in itself, and it looks like it tackles the [...]
